Seagrass

Seagrass (2024) is a Canadian family drama you can watch online on iFILM. Set in the mid-1990s, it follows Judith, a Japanese-Canadian woman still raw from her mother's death, as she brings her husband Steve and their two daughters to a week-long retreat on the Pacific coast. The setting is calm. The people in it are not.

While the parents sit through group therapy, sisters Stephanie and Emmy drift along the shoreline, dare each other near a sea cave, and watch how other kids talk to their own moms and dads. Judith starts pulling at the seams of her marriage, no longer sure she chose right. Ally Maki plays grief as something quiet and contained, until a small thing — a withheld sentence, someone else's laughter — loosens what was barely holding.

This is Meredith Hama-Brown's debut feature, a slow, unshowy film about how a fracture between parents reaches the children before they have words for it. It's for viewers who want intimate, patient drama over big dramatic beats. Stream Seagrass (2024) online on iFILM.